YOURSAY | 'Tuan Ibrahim, you should be praying our country prospers and is ruled well.'

PAS deputy: What's strange about praying for our enemies' defeat?

HangTuahPJ: As a Muslim convert, let me teach you, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and Selangor party leader Ahmad Dusuki Abd Rani, a thing or two about our religion.

1) You should not pray for someone's destruction. God will never accept that negative 'doa'.

2) You should pray that your 'enemy' realises his folly and repents, and becomes a better person.

You just made me realise that not only do you know next to nothing about economics and the running a country, you also don't know religion.

And you have led so many astray with such antics. Your ‘dosa’ (sin) has increased by the number of persons who had prayed along with you.

Léon Moch: Tuan Ibrahim, it would not be so strange if you weren't a party claiming to be rooted in religion.

Because if you are such a party, then you are expected to be held to a higher moral standard than praying for the destruction of other people in that way, perhaps?

Anonymous: If you want to win in a game or politics, you have to demonstrate you are efficient and effective in delivering outcomes. Then you pray for support.

If you need to pray to God for another party's failure, you have just confessed that you are indeed a flop and do not have the attributes or character to win.

Consequently, I suggest PAS skips GE14 because God will only help those who are capable of helping themselves first.

Hang Babeuf: "What's strange about praying for our enemies' defeat?" said Tuan Ibrahim.

Some may see this kind of behaviour as "mature" politics. But it is really just an infantile tantrum, dressed up and ceremonialised in the serban (turban) and robes of the "lebai gang".

Hplooi: The first step towards a 'ticking time-bomb' situation and the killing of those who do not subscribe to your belief system is to dehumanise them.

Prayer is a very spiritual thing, which goes right to the subliminal (the amygdala).

Dehumanising your 'enemies' (when by right they are just law-abiding Malaysians with differing worldviews) using terms such as "evil", "enemies", “kafir”, etc, would radicalise some people, who could then come to believe that "killing" your enemies is legitimate.

This represents a degradation of a functioning democracy, which requires that all participants in the political discourse agree to a code of 'gentlemanly' behaviour. This kind of mass public prayer is a degradation of political discourse and leads down the slippery path of political anarchy.

(Think of the situation where the politics of consensus becomes replaced with "my way or the highway" where, in time to come, "the highway" is a one-way street of violence to achieve your aim).

This mass prayer can be viewed as a form of political violence, albeit one that is mental in nature.

David Dass: Bringing religion into politics - that is what is wrong with what PAS did. In the old days, PAS introduced the 'kafir mengkafir' nonsense, labelling Umno members as kafir (non-believers). What does such labelling make the non-Muslims?

This is the problem with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's approach. It reduces the position of non-Muslims. Hence Hadi's two-tier cabinet. Non-Muslims cannot make or participate in policy decisions.

And before long under a PAS administration, we can foresee there would be hudud law. And we all know that in a PAS-led government, a non-Muslim judge would not be allowed to sit in judgment over Muslims.

There is nothing wrong with praying for a good government. There is even nothing wrong with praying for victory. But there is everything wrong with labelling everyone opposed to you as evil.

Clever Voter: The obvious behaviour most informed people have noticed about PAS is the sheer hypocrisy displayed by the party's leaders.

The “enemy” should be our nation's twin diseases of corruption and lies. PAS should pray hard that carriers of such diseases are brought to justice, and reprimanded.

Pakatan Harapan did not steal or lie. If PAS truly believes in its values of integrity, and that it strives to help the poor and disadvantaged, it should make a stand on recent public scandals in Felda, National Feedlot Corporation, 1MDB, etc.

Remaining silent on the scandals is no worse a sin than being part of them. Sadly, PAS chose to destroy the wrong target.

Hearty Malaysian: PAS is full of venom and is always spinning lies, and blaming others for their own loose cannons, starting from their leader Hadi Awang, who is famous for claiming his words are twisted, after saying something really stupid.

Kawak: Tuan Ibrahim, the media didn't spin. You did, after criticisms surfaced. PAS is a dangerous party and is more vicious than other political parties in Malaysia.

You are constantly labelling your opponents as enemies, infidels or other degrading words that instil hatred within your members and supporters.

Tuan Ibrahim, please reflect on the root cause of conflicts among Muslims in the Middle East and parts of Africa.

Lord Denning: Indeed, Tuan Ibrahim, you should be praying that our country prospers and is ruled well by our leaders.

And that our leaders don't steal from the rakyat, and everyone lives in peace and harmony.

Hopelessly: Prayers are for the weak and helpless. Besides, if God wanted you to win, no prayers would be required.

Anonymous 2413471460628504: Instead of praying for their enemies’ defeat, PAS should pray for PAS victory, for the betterment of Kelantan people, for no floods.

Perhaps when they have only goodness in their hearts and stop wishing for evil to befell others, God will start listening to them.

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